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| Jacob de Backer Paris admitted to the bedchamber of Helen ca. 1585-90 oil on canvas Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
What care I though the world reprove
My bold, my over-daring love:
Ignoble minds themselves exempt
From interest in a brave attempt.
The eagle soaring to behold
The sun arrayed in flames of gold
Regards not though she burns her wings,
Since that rich sight such pleasure brings.
So feel I now my smiling thought
To such a resolution brought
That it contemns all grief and smart,
Since I so high have placed my heart.
And if I die, some worthy spirits
To future times shall sing my merits,
That easily did my life despise,
Yet ne'er forsook my enterprise.
Then shine, bright sun, and let me see
The glory of they majesty:
I wish to die, so I may have
Thy look my death, thine eye my grave.
– Anonymous, 1671
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| Georg Pencz Allegory of Justice 1533 drawing Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Wolf Huber Paul on the road to Damascus (Conversion of Paul) 1531 drawing Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Toussaint Dubreuil Warrior ca. 1589-1602 drawing Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Paolo Veronese Portrait of a man ca. 1576-78 oil on canvas Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Baldassare Peruzzi Odysseus & the daughters of Lycomedes ca. 1520 drawing Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Jan Harmensz. Muller Mercury embracing the nymph Lara ca. 1588-94 drawing Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Anonymous Flemish painter Landscape with Mercury & Argus ca. 1570 oil on panel Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Andrea del Sarto Figures behind a balustrade 1522 drawing Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Andrea del Sarto Study of kneeling figure ca. 1522-26 drawing Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Francesco Primaticcio Costume study of Centaur & Lapith ca. 1540 drawing Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Francesco Primaticcio Vulcan at his Forge ca. 1550 drawing Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Dosso Dossi St George & the Dragon ca. 1513-15 oil on panel Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Dosso Dossi Allegory of Fortune ca. 1530 oil on canvas Getty Museum, Los Angeles |